president and general council for the giants basketball team and at&t park. we're pleased to be here and first want to thank maggie and the entertainment commission to look at the law and a sensible approach to the issues, at the ballpark. we've been applying for permits in the past and we'll have permits with your permission. it also incorporates the measures incorporated in the individual permits and the agencies involved. so the process has been very thorough and collaborative. most of you are probably familiar with at&t park. it's our 19th year of operation. it's home to san francisco giants baseball team but also

host concerts and other special events at the ballpark. as maggie indicated, our lease restricts the number of major events. the events with attendance of 15,000 people to 14. usually it's about three to five concerts. and the rest are other events like san francisco state graduation and different events like that. with respect to concerts, when we negotiated the lease with the port way back in the 1990s, i was actually still -- i have been at the giants for 26 years. so i was the one negotiating that document. we worked very intensively with the community to develop pro protocols and we meet with the city agencies before each event and determine appropriate staffing levels and how we want

to manage the events from public safety standpoint, traffic standpoint, public transportation, trash, all of those issues. we also meet regularly throughout the year and give notice well in advantage of the event. and publish our hotline number and distribute that throughout the community. so everybody knows where the event is happening. where to call if there are issues and the vast majority of event have gone without any complaints. it's an open-air venue, so sometimes there are some sound issues in the neighborhood and that was all part of the discussion when we determined the number of events that could be had. that it would be a venue used fairly rarely for concerts. we also have our standard protocols about how we put on the events. i mentioned the hotline. we work with the entertainment commission in terms of the sound

checks and trying to make sure that the event is -- has the integrity of the event for the concert-goer and also to minimize the sound at the venue. i think we work together and we accept the limitations and conditions that are outlined and wanted also to mention that we wanted to thank the port of san francisco and my colleague, who has been working with maggie and the entertainment commission. if you have any questions, i'm happy to answer them and thank you very much for your time. >> president tan: thank you. commissioners, any questions? looking to my left and right. i asked this of our previous applicant and you state that the hotline will be available for residents, but can you just describe if someone were to call and say, hey, i can hear this from wherever i am and it's too

loud, what adjustments might be made or not? >> the person that plans the hotline is in communication with the staff at the sound area on the field and has communications with the concert promoter. so if we receive complaints, we're in contact with them. a member of our staff may go out to the neighborhood location and i've done that myself to hear and talk with the neighbor and see the nature of the complaint. as a general rule of them, we have the ability to change the sound, but we want to be sure that the event has integrity. so we interface with the complaining person and we attempt to see if there's a way to mitigate the problem. beyonce was there twice and we had complaints on the first night. we made changes with respect to where the speakers were set up and had virtually no complaints the second night. some of it was weather-related,

but some of it was going back and looking at the way the speakers were aimed, trying to make sure that even though you need to have the sound go to the last row, you don't want it to go much beyond the last row. so a lot of it is the science of how the sound is interacting with the weather and the way the speakers are. >> president tan: do new producers come in and say, we want to point them this way? >> most of our converts are with live nation and they're familiar with the speaker placement and the community. so they're sensitive to these issues. we work with them and we do the sound check with them and make sure that we don't have problems for the actual event. >> president tan: great. thank you. any other questions? doesn't look like there are any. thank you very -- just kidding. >> it's not a question. the beyonce concert is one of the things that when i tell

people i'm on the entertainment commission, if they were able to hear it that night, they mention it to me. i'm aware that user done a lot of work since then and have worked with the entertainment commission staff to streamline how the information flows and making sure that the speakers are arranged differently. thank you for that. >> president tan: great. looks like we're done asking questions up here. thank you very much. i will open it up for public comment. doesn't seem like there is any. public comment's closed. commissioners, would someone like to make a motion to approve? >> i will make a motion to approve with the conditions attached. including the at&t park foul mitigation plan, the police

conditions 1-7, the inclusion of the port of san francisco lease and the conditions of approval, 1-11. >> i second that. >> president tan: motion and a second. we have a new commissioner here, put that on the record, commissioner lee is present. let's take a vote. >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> president tan: motion passes. good luck. congratulations. and we'll see you out on the ball field. we'll move on to item 7, which is election of our vice president. this is just our annual election of officers for the commission. we'll start off by taking

nominations. i've spoken to some people about this already. so i think there are ideas out there. is there any motions at this time for nominations at this time for vice chair? >> i would like to nominate dori caminong. >> president tan: great. any add usual ones? there's one nomination. would you like to say anything about your nomination and why you are nominating her? >> well, i'm -- i've been very happy to have served as the vice president. i'm glad i was able to step up and take it on. and i really appreciate this commission and have enjoyed being the vice president. that said, i'm excited that dori wants to step up and be the vice president and i'm enthusiastically supporting her for the position and think she will be great and then ready to continue to support the commission however i can and in

particular support dori. >> president tan: great. dori, would you -- do you accept the nomination? >> commissioner caminong: i accept the nomination. >> president tan: great. do you want to say anything? there's not a lot of competition. >> commissioner caminong: sure. first of all, i would like to say it's an honor and i hope to carry this tradition of strong female leadership. when i joined the commission of march, 2015, i've been able to serve under president tan's leadership and former fellow commissioner the legendary audrey joseph. and also vice president laura thomas. i've learned a lot about just who we serve within our entertainment commission. and i'm very excited to really

create this platform, a storytelling platform where we're a city where community matters, culture matters. and one thing that i'm very proud of is that we create a safe, diverse, inclusive nightlife offerings across the city. we have a complicated and complex city. we live hard, work hard, play hard, love hard. and i think we need to support residents and businesses in creating and expanding our entertainment hubs throughout the city. so that's something i'm looking forward to in creating bridges between the neighbors and night life and carrying out the legacy of female leadership within the entertainment commission. >> president tan: i fully support that. i think the way the elections work, we just vote. if there's no other nomination, we can go ahead and vote. >> clerk: do we need a second on

that? >> president tan: sure. >> i will second that. >> clerk: [roll call vote] i don't know if you can vote for yourself. >> president tan: she can. congratulations, commissioner caminong. we'll go on to item 8, election of the president. this allows commissioners to nominate and allow and seat the president of the san francisco entertainment commission. vice president caminong. >> commissioner caminong: i would like to nominate ben bleiman. i believe in commissioner bleiman's leadership.

he's been thoughtful and compassionate and a lot of his comments throughout the commission during his time and he brings a very unique perspective and very entertaining one and i would really enjoy serving with him. >> president tan: great. do you accept the nomination? >> commissioner bleiman: yes. >> president tan: is there a second? >> i second. >> president tan: would you willic to say anything on behalf of your own candidacy? >> commissioner bleiman: yes. first of all, it's an honor to be thought of for this position and something that i relish to do. i truly believe that nightlife is the main economic and cultural driver in san francisco. i think also the city is changing so quickly recently and it's the all the more important right now that nightlife has a seat at the table. if i had my way, would probably be the only seat at the table, but in this changing city, we

make sure that nightlife is not left behind, but it's a major, major part of a new san francisco that we're seeing before us. and then also, i realize that my presidency doesn't do anything in terms of -- to advance the causes of diversity in leadership in san francisco and beyond. but i do vow to bring in as many diverse voices and listen to as many diverse leaders as i can to help make sure that everyone has a seat at the table. that's really important. >> president tan: great. i will say one thing. i think commissioner bleiman has been a huge asset on our commission. you had really big shoes to fill with audrey joseph leaving the commission, but i think that having a champion of nightlife that works, in the industry and part of the industry and also to

just get called to the table to represent the industry outside of the commission, i look forward to all you can actually accomplish in this commission. it's part being a great referee, great advocate, and hear out the different points of view as a commissioner and i'm sure extraordinarily as president. i fully, fully support that and i'm happy to pass the gavel over once we vote in this meeting today. all right. any other comments or thoughts? if not, we can take a vote. >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> president tan: congratulations to both of you. we'll look forward to continuing

to be on this commission, but not in this seat. all right. so we'll move on to item 9. commissioner comments and questions. our final item of the night. commissioner thomas? >> vice president thomas: i wanted to say, bryant, thank you for your years of service on this commission. it's been great to be vice president under you. i've learned a lot. i really have appreciated the ways in which you engage with often contentious voices in conflict and helped all of us to figure out how to get people to better places and come to some compromise and shared understanding and it's really -- it's been an honor to serve with you and i've really appreciated it and thank you. thank you for all of the time that you spent away from your family on behalf of the commission in particular and so thank you.

>> president tan: thanks. i will start crying. [laughter] >> commissioner bleiman: i have two comments. the first is, i think we would be remiss not to thank commissioner thomas for her work as vice president of the commission. i was very -- i think i speak for everybody, that i have this level of confidence that when president tan wasn't here, we had a steady, wise hand on the gavel and was eminently competent and we were in great hands for that. it was amazing. and, secondly, i didn't bring this up before, but the next meeting, i have a family vacation planned, so i'm letting you all know that i won't be able to be at my first presidency. but i promise i will do everything to go to every single meeting from that point on. [laughter] >> president tan: dori, are you ready?

>> commissioner caminong: i'm ready. >> president tan: all right. i guess i'll say something. it has -- thanks, commissioner thomas, for that really sweet -- the sweet words. i can't even count. i think it's been close to five years as being president of the commission. we had to change the rules of our bylaws so i could stay here. before that, we were limited to two years of presidency. thank you for believing in me, supporting me. i've done my best to be as objective as possible. for someone that loves nightlife and loves san francisco, it's been an honor to serve on this commission and definitely an honor to feel like one of the youngest persons on this commission i've been given the gavel. so i look forward to serving as a commissioner and being able to continue to think on my feet and

continue to advocate where i can for nightlife and arts and cultures in this city. and, yeah -- it's been great. so thank you very much. all right. let's open this up for public comment to the no one that's out there to give public comment. [laughter] all right. if there are no more comments or questions, we can adjourn. all right. for the last time of this presidency, this meeting's adjourned at 6:23 p.m. have a good night.

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and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. it's no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because it's doing just that. it's the first boat in san francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. how did you establish your boat into such a floating fish market? >> well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. when you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. so being able to do this is really -- it's a big positive thing i think for the entire community. >> a very positive thing. as a third-generation fisherman

joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. >> right now we're just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. so we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. there's the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. and then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. >> joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. >> we had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. >> it's incredible. >> i know, it's hard to imagine. >> but this wasn't always the case for joe. >> the markets that we have left in california, they're few and far between, and they really are

restrictive. they'll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. a lot of times it's rough weather and if you can't make your delivery you will lose your rotation. that's why there's hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. my boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldn't do anything with it because we had no market. the ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldn't take them off your boat. >> that was until the port commission of san francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a pilot program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. >> the purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall fishing community at the port of san francisco. we have limited the program to certain types of fish such as

salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on taylor street and jefferson street. so this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. it's to basically to lift up the whole industry together. >> and if joe the program has been doing just that. >> it was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. and that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from san francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. because we really didn't think or know that we'd get such a positive response from the public. and so we're getting thousands

of people coming down here buying fish every week and so that's pretty cool. they like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. and when they come down here the one thing that they say is that they're so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and it's still fresh all week in the refrigerator. so that's really cool. >> the fish is very fresh and the price is super. i don't think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. i can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. i just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. >> this program supports the strategic plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and

also economic vitality. because it's helping the fishermen to make ends meet. they have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. >> how does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did? >> when i was a kid and i used to work in my dad's fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. so i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l.a. so it's kind of cool that we're still dealing with the same families. and this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. >> one of the advantages of this program is the department people that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it

and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. the feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. and there's a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. in fact, there's people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at what's happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. so it's generated some conversation down at the wharf and that's a good thing. >> as you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the pilot program has been a huge success. for more information visit sfsport.com. (♪) (♪)

>> we take a lot of pride in what we do. the electric shop covers all of waste water, so out of this location here, we cover everything from oceanside to southeast plant and all the computations including treasure island and yerba buena. we have all the preventative responsibility, maintaining maintenance and also keeping up with work orders from operations. i would say one of the things fortunately for me is the staff is incredibleably motivated. the staff here knows what to do, how to do the job safely, and it makes my job incredibly

easy. >> they know the job, and they know the challenges, and i think it's all about personal pride. they want to do a good job. from our maintenance group to our i.n.c., dedication to the people. when they're going home, and they're crossing the bay bridge, and they get a call that there's a problem with a pump station on treasure island, they return to work. they turnaround in westbound traffic and get back to work and get this pump back in line, and i can't tell you how much that means to me as a boss and the city and county of san francisco. >> as a group, if they didn't do what they do, the streets would be flooded with waste and gray water, and it could become a health hazard. we take a lot of pride in what we do, and we do the jobs right, and you walk away

fulfilled that you've done the city a >> president serina: good afternoon and welcome to the matinee addition on aging and adult services. will they please take the call of both? [roll call] >> at this time we ask that you silence all electronics. >> president serina: made a -- may i have a motion to approve the agenda? >> moved. >> president serina: thank you. all in favour? thank you. motion carried. may i have a motion to approve the june 20th, 2018 meeting minutes? >> so moved. >> second.

>> president serina: any comments or questions. >> can we note that we have another director here. >> president serina: thank you. ok. all in favour of approval of the minutes? >> president serina: thank you. motion carried. and now the director's report. >> good afternoon commissioners. i wanted to start off by talking about the representation of the national association of area agencies on aging aging, the meeting in july in chicago. we were fortunate to have 11 people there, people from the management team as well as people from the planning team representing which was great. it was really nice to be able to spread out and go to different workshops and bring back different information back to our team. one of the things that we heard there that we continue to hear

is that there is a lot of concern about what will happen in the federal budget in the next year. there's a lot of conversation about cutting the services that we work very hard to protect and we worry about a lot. there's also a lot of talk about the older americans act reauthorization and what the strategy around that should be with respect to getting it reauthorized. before those of you -- for those of you who are on the commission, you can remember that the act was just reauthorized a few years ago. it is already up again if i thought reauthorization. and it is really hard to think of it strategically what the best approach to that should be. is it time now to open up the conversation? or is it best to weight until the political situation looks a little bit more favourable to older people? so it will be interesting to see what happens with that i think we will be looking -- we will be

meeting the commission on the advisory council to weigh in and support the older americans act and the programs that are related to it in this next year, as we look at the budget. a lot of our programs continue to be at risk. that was one of the big takeaways from that meeting. in addition, we had a lot of chance to hear from other aaa's and they're related partners and hear about some really fantastic ideas. things that we could implement here. we had a follow-up meeting last week when we came back with our internal team to talk about some of the things that we might talk about implementing in san francisco. as usual, we often are reminded -- once again we are reminded we have great programs here and we have great support from having fantastic commissioners, to have a great advisory council members and really, you know, really strong advocates in the community. that carries us if either then a

lot of our colleagues are able to be carried. we certainly have a lot more money in this program than most people do. the california association of area agencies is having its annual board retreat in september and we will be focusing this year on a couple of different years. one is behavioural health and making sure that older adults are included in mental health services act programs. one is thinking about housing and trying to figure out if there is a partnership that we can have between the sea four a and the california directory to come up with a intentionally new housing legislation that helps support people staying at home safely.

at all so we are looking there at reframing aging as we are in san francisco. so that is exciting. it is my contribution to the board. to bring in people from frameworks to talk to the directors about to reframing the aging and how we might do some statewide campaigning around ageism. moving on to reframing aging, i am really excited that we have actually launched our reframing aging campaign work last week. commissioner wallenberg is involved in that group. it's exciting to have him and have the commission represented their. we are looking at building a two prong campaign. one to talk about reframing the aging in san francisco and combating ageism at able -ism, but also making sure that people really know how to access our services. as you remember we found out from the community assessment and also other places that people do not know how to access services often when they need them. so it is exciting to embark on this. it will be a lot of work. hired a woman who many of you

may know but many of the people in the community know who will be our project manager. is. it will help to have her with us. it's a lot of work. we need someone to move us in the right direction. i'm excited about that. we had our first meeting august 8th and we will continue to meet monthly. we will have some committees working alongside that bigger workgroup. we also just launched residential care for at the elderly group. this is something that the coordinating council has taken on, in part at the request of supervisor he who is really interested in ensuring that there are residential care facility beds in san francisco. as we know a lot of them have disappeared and there is just a whale in the city to make sure that we maintain what we have and hopefully for entice people

to grow the number of beds that they have that they're contracting the city for. this is something that we have announced we are very interesting and. we put $1 million into really helping to support the rcf be in san francisco and we are hoping that this council and workgroup can find some recommendations and good solutions for keeping residential care facilities in the community, particularly when we think about the people who need the most. who which is the people who are in the behavioural health system, people who are clients of adult protective services and people with advanced dementia. we will be working on that. again, there are a number of people in this room who are involved in this process. in that group. and the last thing i wanted to talk about today, is the mayor's office sent out a bunch of policy recommendations. you may have read in the paper

or heard that right after mayor breed was elected, she had a lot of policy advisors and broke them out into different interest areas to come up with certain policy and recommendations for her and things they would like her to work on. i think she was trying to find a diverse group of people. meeting people from all walks of life, regular san francisco residents who work in or go to school here, people with disabilities, older people, children and, you know, who will represent those groups. and business et cetera. people came together on a saturday and really started to hammer out a recommendations. she has asked departments to take a look at those recommendations and respond with a short memo about where our interests fit in with the recommendations and what we're doing about some of those recommendations if we are already working on those. we are in the process as a

department of -- in preparing that memo. we as a human services agency will combine our memos and sends them back as an agency. that is something we are working on and it is due at the end of the month. i think that's what i have for today unless you have -- that is what i have for questions today. >> vice president loo: i am just wondering, do we have the final budget yet thought about that apartment? >> we do have the final budget for the department, but, yes. the mayor signed the budget on august 1st, so we have our final budget, yes. >> vice president loo: what is the month? >> i don't remember exactly what it is. where is alex? $334 million. >> president serina: question. you mentioned the reauthorization for the older americans act and the thinking

and discussion about the political strategy to see that that is done. how widespread is familiarity with the elder americans act? how much does the public know about it and what it entails and how it benefits people? >> i think a lot of people do not know about it. there are a lot of communities that have really focused on talking about it and getting information out about it and there are counties within california that have been a pretty good job of that. particularly, i think people take the opportunity when they are doing their area plan to do public education around the older americans act, and they put out infographics and things like that that really describe how the older americans act works and how it really works within communities. that is not something that we have done yet. but we certainly could. i would say, if you ask the average american about the older americans act, probably there's not a lot of knowledge about its me when i don't see much about

it in publications. i think, given it's significance, if there is a written reason -- way we can raise the profile, it may generate more political support. >> i agree. it is a good point. that is something i can bring up as a board member at the national association of agencies on aging. i can bring it up with them and i have a close association with people above aarp and american society on aging. they have a group that meets, you know, aging association organization where they can certainly be talking about that more. >> president serina: aarp would be a great advocate. finally, on the policy recommendations and the information that mayor breed has requested, was there anything in those taskforces that was a surprise to us? different from what we are doing? a variation on a theme? >> not so much. i think there's a lot of opportunity to talk in our short

memo. there's a lot of opportunity to talk about how the work we are doing fits in with the policy recommendations. whether it be focused on, you know, there was a group that was looking at children and families and older adults. there was -- certainly we fit there. even within homelessness, when we think about the homeless prevention work that we do, you know, or the number of homeless individuals that we work with in our various programs, when we think about housing some of the work we do with housing subsidies, we think about workforce and employment, you know, we are certainly doing work there. i think there are a number of -- and even in equity as a whole. there was a section therapeutic the work that we do brings a different lens to the equity conversation when we start talking about older people and people with disabilities. there's an opportunity to say, you know, these are areas where we are doing these things. they may not match exactly who the people came up with the

recommendations were thinking, but they add to the conversation and to the great work the city is doing. >> president serina: maybe we can use them to help advocate thought that more money for at some of the programs. [laughter] >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? thank you. employee recognition. the department of aging and adult services commission and executive director shereen will be recognized -- will be recognizing sanchez from the d.a. ss office for her hard work -- for her hard work and dedication. [applause] [cheering] [laughter]

>> ok. can everyone hear me? ok. congratulations. i want to start off by talking about the great work that the eligibility unit within the organization does. they do very special work. one of the things that we -- i can't talk like this. i will talk like this. [laughter] >> can you hear me? 's perfect. one of the things we are really excited about today is that she

does fantastic work within her unit. i also wanted to talk about what the eligibility organization does. they are the benefits and resource hub. and what the eligibility workers do is they help people access and medicate benefits. [laughter] [indiscernible] >> the human services agency and the work that it does -- >> our mics are not working. the wireless mics are not working. they said they were going to come up and take a look.

ok, thanks. [indiscernible] [laughter] [indiscernible]

>> she displayed good leadership and displaying good skills. she has become our unofficial in-house i.t. expert due to her vast computer knowledge. she has always lent a helping hand when staff has had technical issues and she has taken the lead in developing our sharepoint website. she is a great spent -- fan of disneyland and star wars and she is a dog owner. [laughter] i think one of the things that is great if she has brought her experience from another unit to this unit to pick one of the things we have really noticed in building this particular site is that we have needed the expertise of people who are willing to come over from other programs and work with us and teach us about what they know about eligibility and the world of medicaid and medic health. thank you so much. on behalf of -- on behalf of the

department of aging and adult services, i want to say that you are our employee of the month for august. [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i just wanted to say thank you file for this award. it is an honour to be employee of the month and i want to thank my fellow coworkers, supervisors and the leadership thought by the continued support. thank you. [applause]

>> was going before the board of supervisors. we had two site visits. one to the south sunset senior center and also one to the george davis senior center in the bayview. lastly, mrs. karen kinsick reports from the rebuilding reported that they would do a project in the bay view on september 15th. >> any comments or questions? thank you, leon. >> what are your findings on the two site visits? >> the site visits were positive. the one from the sunset -- south sunset senior center, it's a very small site with it being utilized quite a bit. there are issues that mainly a

chinese community with 70 lunches per day. the food is brought in by a self-help for the elderly and it's utilized quite a bit. from the george davis senior center, also that site is really being utilized and that the number of food clients have increased at that senior daily. so it's really utilizing there in the bay view. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? thank you, very much, leon. >> thank you. >> next dianne lawrence with the joint legislative committee report. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i've been prag that so i didn't say good morning. and director mcspadden. my printer ran out of paper and i turned it off before i ran the last two pages. a couple of the key bills i

wanted to discuss are here and you will all the details in your minutes. as you know, we've been tracking 33 bills this year. we're coming down to the end of this two-year session. one of the bills that we had been talking about was prevention of not having convicted -- anyone convicted of a crime working at residential care facilities. at health fair facilities. that bill was gutted in the last couple of weeks so so it is off the table and it is starting in january and the next session. we've had one bill signed by the governor and chaptered. that was on ex panning the defense of what a dependent adult is, whether they live alone or not. the rest of the bills are moving through. there was a lot of activity from

the last time i reported to you back in may. we've had two meetings in june and july. a number of the bills, the one i want to point out because it ties into our discussion of the older americans act that is ab-2719 by assembly member irwin. that is to look at the -- the department of aging is responsible to administer the olders act in california. there are various functions and duties on the department with respect to the development of programs. this bill revising the social needs in our current legislation. the california part of the bill to include cultural and social isolation caused by sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. that bill was ordered to the

assembly august 6th. there was a lot of action. we've been talking about the bill for grab bars in public rest rooms. that bill has been modified. it's hard to determine whether or not the grab bars will be there. the language was changed from public rest rooms grab bars to ab bue latorre com part to rest room stalls disabilities act and it was sent to appropriations. a number of these bills are for the third hearing. that is also of the legislation that has been pending on emergency services. senator wiener's bill on conservatorship is modified. it's been amended and moved to the next group to look at it. i apologize for some of the others that are missing.

there's been a lot of activity. we're still waiting for more things to be signed and finalized. >> thank you, dianne. any comments or questions? >> yes, i have a quick question. on the grab bar legislation, the change in language, does that also change therefore the content of? >> i'm not sure. i need to look at that a little further. as i was reading that, that definitely is a question. i think there was a concern with the advisory council and c.s.l. which is sponsoring that bill, that the grab bars are important beyond just the a. d.a. stalls so i'll check on that for you. >> dianne, the bill, regarding employing people with records. why was it gutted? what is the opposition's argument to the bill? >> i don't know. sometimes what will happen is

say bill will be gutted because they need that bill number to put something else in. so it's a way -- i used to see that what i was working. you would be tracking a bill and all of a sudden -- we've seen that with at least one other one this year. it may even be a few more. it's something we're tracking. and then all of a sudden it is something entirely different the next time we meet. they're using that. i can take a look at that and report next time on that one. >> thank you. >> any other comments or questions? any from the public? yes -- >> one i wanted to check in with is ab1881 passed -- >> i'm meals on wheels san francisco. nice to see you. >> ab81881 is cash out reversal so that passed. it sounds ridiculous because i think we've all been trying to

work on that for who knows -- 30 or 40 years. that reversed. that means starting next summer, 2019, people on s.s.i. will be eligible for cal fish. fresh. there's a lot of work and the state is taking a lead. the rest of us will benefit and make sure our county really has the highest rate of people getting on cal fresh that we can see. it will be tough. there's a lot of mess there. >> we'll add that to our tracking. it wasn't one we had been tracking. >> thank you both. next is the long-term care coordinating council report. >> good afternoon commissioners, director mcspadden. my name is valerie coleman. i'm a program annalist with dos. i will give the council updates. they met july 12th.

there was an update on the dignity fund from melissa mcgee. they had a retreat in june. the second item was discussing retreat next steps and what they want to do with that information. it was focused on looking on the mission, the vision, policy goals and strategies moving forward. so they're continuing to digest that and figure out the next steps. the next stop i can was around, we got a budget update. we got a city wide budget update and analysis from dan kaplan, as well as a dos-specific update from shireen mcspadden. we had a presentation from michael blecker around the challenges we know the v.a. system and how that effects older adults. the presentation, and all the information, is available on the long-term care coordinating council's website. including minutes, agenda, other things like that. so if folks would like to review

you can look at that and contact me directly. do you have any questions? >> thank you, valerie. any comments or questions? >> any comments or questions of the public? thank you, again. >> thank you. >> the case report. no case report. the nominating committee is recommending the commission to reappoint the following advisory council members who are incumbent. william marota, kay parek, and beverly taylor. because this is coming from the nominating committee we don't need a second. do we have any discussion? any comments or questions from the public? call to question all in favor of reappointing these three? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. please thank and congratulate all